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Diagnosis Zone

Scientists play a big part in how we work out when there’s something medically wrong with us. Modern hospitals are filled with cutting-edge technology used which has all been developed from work done by scientists.

Beyond X-Rays, scientists use Magnetic Resonance Imaging to see through the skull and into the brain | Image: Dr Frank Galliard

In this zone there could be researchers looking at people’s brains in order to diagnose diseases earlier, scientists 3D printing new devices that analyse microbes, people finding new ways to check the health of animals and livestock, and scientists who work in hospitals imaging cancer tumours with radioactive molecules.